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420 George Street

Rooftop Bees maintains two beehives at 420 George Street, Sydney. This initiative aligns with the company's ESG strategy, Transform Tomorrow. Investa is commited to being nature-positive to life by contributing to bringing nature back to Sydney’s CBD. The Investa bees pollinate an area up to 78.5 square kilometers.

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Nikki
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Nikki

Nikki is an experienced beekeeper, bird watching enthusiast, and home baking enjoyer. You'll see her periodically around the site checking up on the bees.

Season Snapshot: Spring

Spring is here! Colonies will begin expanding rapidly as nectar flows grow. Our beekeepers will be busy ensuring your bees have plenty of space to grow into.

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Your bees will fly up to 5km from their hives to collect nectar and pollen, and provide valuable pollination services to surrounding flowers.

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Hive 1

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Bee Population

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We periodically use alcohol washes to test for varroa mite numbers as per NSW DPI recommendation. The test samples 300 bees from the hive. NSW DPI recommends treatment if we find 9 or more mites in spring and summer, or 5 or more mites in autumn and winter.

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We periodically use alcohol washes to test for varroa mite numbers as per NSW DPI recommendation. The test samples 300 bees from the hive. NSW DPI recommends treatment if we find 9 or more mites in spring and summer, or 5 or more mites in autumn and winter.

No recent wash

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Live from the Hive

Hive 1

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Live Sensor Data

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Internal Temp Bees actively heat and cool the hive to maintain a strict internal temperature (typically 34.5°C) to protect their brood.

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Sensor Data This Week

Hive 2

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Internal Temp Bees actively heat and cool the hive to maintain a strict internal temperature (typically 34.5°C) to protect their brood.

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How the Sensors Work

Temperature and humidity sensors are installed inside the brood nest of each of your hives. These are paired with an external device that sits nearby to capture ambient weather measurements and securely transmit the combined data to our cloud system.

For our apiarists, this continuous stream of data acts as a remote heartbeat. It allows us to seamlessly verify that a colony is active and healthy without having to physically open and disrupt the hive. Beyond basic health monitoring, these metrics provide early insights into internal brood production and can even warn us of impending swarm risks.

Understanding Hive Temperature

A healthy honey bee colony acts like a single warm-blooded organism. To protect their developing brood, bees actively heat and cool the hive to maintain a strict internal temperature of roughly 34.5°C, completely independent of the weather outside.

By comparing the Internal Temperature against the External Weather, we can instantly verify the health and population strength of the colony.

Healthy Colony

Notice how the internal temperature remains perfectly stable and flat, even as the external weather fluctuates between day and night.

Constant 34.5°C

Struggling or Empty Hive

Without enough bees to regulate heat, the internal temperature helplessly mirrors the outside weather, rising during the day and dropping at night.

Follows outside weather

What's in your honey?

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DNA Analysis of Honey

We periodically take a sample of the honey from your hives and send it to our partner lab for DNA analysis. Throughout the beekeeping season, your bees will have travelled in a 5km radius around your site. This analysis helps us map out their journey and understand what plants they have foraged on, and what other insects or animals they may have interacted with.

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Honey eDNA Analysis Sequence counts provide a loose indication of dominance but do not correlate to exact population numbers. Unidentified sequences have been filtered out.

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Species of Interest Detected

    Native vs Introduced Plants Portion of unique plant species detected that are native vs introduced.

    Planting Guide

    Native plants preferred by bees that were not detected in the sample.

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    Did you know?

    Need for Speed

    Need for Speed

    Honey bees fly at a speed of around 25km per hour and beat their wings 200 times per second!

    A Lifetime's Work

    A Lifetime's Work

    A single worker honey bee will produce only about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey in her entire lifetime.

    The Waggle Dance

    The Waggle Dance

    Bees communicate by dancing! A successful forager performs a 'waggle dance' to tell hive mates the exact distance and direction of a nectar source.

    Frequent Flyers

    Frequent Flyers

    To make just one kilogram of honey, a colony must visit over 2 million flowers and fly approximately 150,000 kilometers.

    The Royal Treatment

    The Royal Treatment

    Queen bees can lay up to 2,000 eggs a single day during spring—that's more than her own body weight in eggs!

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